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Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom

Much of James Joyce's "Ulysses" is told from inside the head of Leopold Bloom as he traverses Dublin on June 16, 1904. But the final fifty pages belong entirely to Leo's wife, Molly, who, even though she hasn't left the house, has hardly been idle. This tour-de-force interior monologue has been adapted into a one-woman, one-act play by Colum McCann and Aedín Moloney—who plays Molly—directed by Kira Simring. As Molly lounges in her bedroom after a day and a night of lovemaking, she reflects on her youth in Gibraltar, her marriage to "Poldy," her career as a singer, her state of womanhood, and her lovers past, present, and future. Molly's mind is full of sweetness, anger, pride, and sexuality. As fine as Moloney is, however, the literalness of the onstage speech and movement only rarely match the hypnotic magic of Molly's (and Joyce's) imagination.